I was going to suggest you take a look at my sig but I have been beaten to it
I tried really hard to find stats on normal twin births when I was pregnant, but all I could find was vaginal vs CS for my particular hospital (which was about 60% vaginal). However that did not take into account inductions, epidurals, etc. The stats are also difficult because many women will go into premature labour with twins, and there are greater complications with identical twins who share a placenta than fraternal twins who do not. What I did find out was that for women who have uncomplicated twin pregnancies which continue to term and are not interfered with by induction or augmentation of the 2nd twin, the CS rate was nice and low. Sorry I can't give you the figures.
Yeah if they are identical and there is any potential risk from TTTS they will suggest a C/S.
A lot of hospitals make twin birthing mummas have an epidural *just in case* the second twin doesn't descend or if they end up breech in labour
so that emergency C/S is a quick process. Mum wasn't 'allowed' to have them vaginally in Geelong, they were going to C/S her so she went to RWH.
The girls were born at 33 weeks gestation, not more than 15 minutes apart... labour was 4 hours (and they were trying to actively stop and slow it)
probably would have been quicker without the epidural!
DC - mine were identical and had started to show signs of TTTS but my waters broke at 35weeks 2 days, so I guess they were determined to arrive. We had recieved a call on the Friday night to say that the TTTS was starting to look serious and to come in on Sunday morning for monitoring. My waters broke 5am Sunday morning . I do wonder what actually might of happened if I had made it to the monitoring appointment.
Lots of people have told me that other hospitals have a automatic rule of a c/s for twins.
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. I do wonder what actually might of happened if I had made it to the monitoring appointment.
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